This image is a light painting of a few African momentos I have in my house. I set exposure to 30 seconds and then used a pen light to “paint” light onto subject. Without the pen light it would completely black. I lit the candle before the shot and blew it out after about 1 second, do it didn’t flood the image. I love this painting with light technique and is a lot of fun. You can almost feel the colors and textures.

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This is So. Very. Cool. … Really like the toy bus that brightens up the picture (it looks like what we called dalidallas in Dar es Salaam – that sideway perch looks like the way they were driven All Over The Road!!)